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Cost-Aware Design — Making Mechanics Actionable

Synthesize the mechanics from Chapters 1–16 into a repeatable framework for designing APIs and components that preserve compiler/runtime optimization opportunities.

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Optimize later; design for readability first and performance is a separate phase.

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the mechanics from Chapters 1–16 are design-time levers. A few structural choices (concrete hot paths, value semantics, bounded data, pointer-free layouts) decide allocation and dispatch cost before a profiler ever runs.

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Ownership as a design primitive: who allocates, who retains, who releases — for slices, maps, goroutines, and pooled resources.
Separating hot and cold paths so readability improvements in cold paths don't tax throughput in hot paths.
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